scutch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions. countable
  2. A tuft or clump of grass.
  3. The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp. uncountable
    — the labourers went peacefully about their usual employments, some driving teams of ponderous horses at the plough, others burning scutch and brambles, the rubbish of field and forest.
  4. A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks. countable
动词 v.
  1. To beat or whip; to drub. Northern-England,Scotland,UK,dialectal,obsolete
  2. To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
    — 2005, John Martin, Warren Leonard, David Stamp, and Richard Waldren, Principles of Field Crop Production (4th Edition), section 32.10 “Processing Fiber Flax”, the title of subsection 32.10.3 “Scutching”.

词形变化

scutches present,singular,third-person scutching participle,present scutched participle,past scutched past scutches plural scutches plural

词汇关系

衍生词
scutching sword scutch grass

词源

词源 1
From Middle English *scucchen, from Anglo-Norman escucher, from Vulgar Latin *excuticāre.
词源 2
From Irish.
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